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This is richly ironic. I had to check that this was not an article from The Onion. Will this tool bypass the censored Google that will be introduced in China?
by 21 8y ago
This is richly ironic. I had to check that this was not an article from The Onion.
Will this tool bypass the censored Google that will be introduced in China?
More likely it will automatically report the user to the Chinese government if used in China.
- mtgx 8y agoIt probably won't even be available to Chinese users.
- 394549 8y agoMaybe it will, but have a country-specific feature to report its users to the authorities. After all, gotta comply with those "local laws and regulations."
- bilbo0s 8y agoIt wouldn't work in China anyway. So it can be available there, or not available there. Would make no functional difference.
- elbracitosNIR 8y agoCould you please stop talking bad about Google? It’s against the site guidelines [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- thecatspaw 8y agoCtrl F: "google" -> 0 results
- komali2 8y agoHahaha, that had to be deadpan humor.
- bubblethink 8y agoThis is about preventing dns manipulation attacks. That assumes that a DNS server (like 8.8.8.8) is generally accessible, but an adversary is trying to manipulate the responses. In China, you anyway can't access regular global dns servers. You need to use official dns supported by the government. So the question of dns manipulation is moot.
- ghostly_s 8y agoSo that makes it morally consistent...how?
- hnbroseph 8y agowhat consistency are you referring to? that jigsaw ought do what google does, or google ought to what jigsaw does, and thus establish some notional inter-consistency between them?
- Barrin92 8y agoGoogle's a big business with many divisions and even more people. I don't see why moral consistency is supposed to be expected or of particular interest.
- x220 8y agoGoogle and Alphabet have executives that set mission statements. If these executives wanted to, they could easily prioritize ethical conduct and refuse compliance with censorship schemes and oppressive regimes.
- thisgoodlife 8y agoThis is not true. I tried 8.8.8.8 and it worked when I visited China 2 years ago.
- mygo 8y agothat’s what they wanted you to think ;)
- samswin 8y agoIt will tell the user to the chinese government, in a way. 1. All DNS traffic from intra must go through the chinese national firewall. Although the firewall cannot see or tamper the data, it can tell whether it is encrypted. 2. Most DNS traffic are not encrypted. Intra users will be very easy to discover to the firewall, like a flare in the night. 3. One's name is linked to one's IP in china, and encryption alone cannot hide the user IP. It may work in some other nations. But not china.